Sabrina Clery and Red Sahara

Vita Tanga, guitar
SABRINA CLERY, vocalist
Sabrina Clery is a Friends Seminary mom to Kaya Sky, vocal coach and director of NYC based
live music collective, Red Sahara which she founded with guitarist/composer, Vita Tanga. From
Canada to Brooklyn with St. Lucian roots, she’s also a marketing specialist with a Master’s degree in
Music Business from NYU.
About Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra
Founded by Bob Rosen in 1994, The Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra has been a large ensemble that performs the work of celebrated composers and arrangers who write in the jazz idiom. The ensemble has performed with notable jazz artists over the years including instrumentalists , Bobby Watson, Houston Person, Bob Mintzer, Kenny Barron, Michael Wolff, and singers Andy Bey, Janis Siegel ,Etta Jones and Peter Eldridge. Past projects have included arrangements written for the ensemble as diverse as the tangos of Astor Piazolla, a synthesis of Eastern European Jewish themes with the strains of Arabic music from the Middle East and hip-hop funk rhythms coupled with ingenious harmonic language.
Hundreds of musicians have played in the Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra and dozens of composers have heard their works played and performed. It is only in a city like New York that such a high caliber of musician can be called upon to form this unique jazz coalition. The ensemble thanks Friends Seminary and the 15th St. Meeting for its continued support.
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THANKS
We wish to thank the following people who help make this annual event possible:
Robert Bo Lauder and Leitzel Schoen, Friends Seminary; The Fifteenth St. Meeting;
Ahmet Badur; Katy Homans, Phil Kovacevich, and the Friends Shelter Committee; Christina Burns, Gingi Pica, and Ray Leslee. Special Thanks to Walter Naegle for providing historical materials on Bayard Rustin
Video: Jenna Veal
January 23, 2020